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Movie at the Library - Summer Reading

A Summer@HPL 2024 Event!

Join us for a special screening of Disney’s WALL-E (2008 - G rated) at the Homer Public Library!

After hundreds of lonely years, a waste management robot finds a new purpose in life. With only a cockroach for a friend, he finds true love in another robot sent on a mission to Earth to see if it is safe for human life.

Fiddle Music and Stories

A Summer@HPL 2024 event!

Join guest performers Ken Waldman and Josh Krohn for stories and fiddle music.

Tuesday, June 11th

6 - 7pm

In the Children's Library. For families.

Evening of Poetry at HPL

An Evening of Poetry and Conversation

Tuesday, May 14th, 2024

6:30 - 7:30 pm

Join the Friends of the Homer Public Library in the library's cozy Fireplace Reading Lounge to hear from four local treasured poets as they read from their latest collections of poetry. We will hear passages from:

Yoga for Teens and Tweens - June Session

A Summer@HPL 2024 Event! 

In this 1 hour class you will learn some yoga basics; how to breathe in a way that helps you feel calm and centered, how to increase your flexibility, strength and balance with stretches, and how to focus your mind with very simple meditation techniques.

Registration is required. For Teens and Tweens.

Outdoor Adventures and Stories with CACS Summer 2024

Every Tue, Jun 11 - July 30 
1:00-2:30pm

Ages 6-9
Join the CACS day campers, their counselors, and youth services librarian Cinda for read-alouds, games, and crafts on the library’s greenway (western lot).  Meet at the Story Walk Trail @HPL! 

Music, Movement, and Making

A Summer@HPL 2024 Weekly Event!

Ages 0-5

For littles (babies through preschoolers) and their caregivers. Join us for 20-25 minutes of one story, lots singing and dancing, followed by creative making with recycled materials! 

Every Monday 6/9 - 7/29 

10:30 - 11:30am

Virtual Author Talk with Rebecca F. Kuang

Tuesday, May 21st at 3:00 PM AKDT

We welcome you to register for a thrilling conversation with Rebecca F. Kuang (R.F. Kuang) as she chats with us about her New York Times bestselling novel, Yellowface. Yellowface grapples with questions of diversity, racism, and cultural appropriation, as well as the terrifying alienation of social media.

Virtual Author Talk with Nina Simon

Wednesday, May 8th at 3:00 PM AKDT

Nothing brings a family together like a murder next door.

You’re invited to join Nina Simon online as she chats about her lighthearted whodunnit about a grandmother-mother-daughter trio of amateur sleuths, Mother-Daughter Murder Night.

Virtual Author Talk with Douglas Brunt

Wednesday, May 1st at 11:00 AM AKDT

Join us as we chat with New York Times bestselling author, Douglas Brunt, about instant bestselling debut non-fiction work The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I. This book reveals the hidden history of Rudolf Diesel, one of the world’s greatest inventors, and his mysterious disappearance on the eve of World War I. 

Summer @ HPL 2024

Turn in your reading logs by 6pm on Friday, July 26th to have them count for prize giveaways at the End of Summer Reading Party!

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